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Made in America: The Shaping of Modern American Evangelicalism is unavailable, but you can change that!

Michael Horton calls evangelicals back to faith and truth. He believes that there is a “crisis of truth in our time.… And it is due at least in part to our cultural accommodation.” Horton looks at the relationship between biblical teaching and what it means to be popular and accepted in America today, and he challenges his brothers and sisters in Christ to put aside hypocrisy and superficial...

is a God-centered commission. There is nothing here about adapting our presentation to the “felt needs” of our audience. After all, Saint Paul said the gospel was “a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles” (1 Cor. 1:23). “For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God’s sight.… So then, no more boasting about men!” (3:19, 21). Of course, this does not mean that we ought to ignore the realities of contemporary struggles or the context in which the gospel is presented. Nevertheless,
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